Q and A continues: "And so that's part of what prompted us to buy the Boyle Hotel, or the Mariachi Hotel as people call it in the neighborhood, is that: to try to preserve some affordable housing for those mariachis so that they stay on that plaza — which they made, they created. That was a traffic island with a donut shop. And they started hanging out there, and then that's when they brought in that kiosk, which now unfortunately doesn't serve much function except to look pretty to people driving by." Plans have been in the works for a while--earlier this year, View from a Loft showed off an April 2008 edition of tu ciudad that featured a computerized rendering of the renovated hotel.